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      <title>Kinds of blue: Design tokens for contrast and accessibility</title>
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      <description>I woke up today and decided to change the header colour from crimson to blue. Let&apos;s talk about design tokens, contrast and accessibility.</description>
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      <title>Pay it forward: Fork this blog template and make it yours</title>
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      <description>The code behind this site is now a template you can clone and deploy for yourself. A sneaky peek at the journey from a public repo to a forkable template.</description>
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      <description>This site had an llms.txt that went stale in just over a week. Easy enough to fix, but what&apos;s the point of maintaining them if they&apos;re not being read?</description>
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      <title>Structuring content like a trail of breadcrumbs</title>
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      <description>A deep dive into pagination, breadcrumbs, category and author pages, and sitemap maintenance. All this, and content modelling too!</description>
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      <title>How to boot straight into PICO-8 on a Raspberry Pi</title>
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      <description>A single-purpose fantasy console, built from a headless Pi and about 30 minutes of patience. Power on, get PICO-8. No RetroPie, no desktop, no menu.</description>
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      <title>Meandering off the path, shipping minor upgrades</title>
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      <description>A quick roundup of four reading-experience improvements, shipped while clearing the decks for more ambitious changes. The scope got creeped, but what are ya gonna do?</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Writing a prompt that yields a specific image is closer to art direction than to drawing. But there are legal and ethical considerations, too.</description>
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      <title>Publish a blog post without opening the CMS?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Behold! The future! Model Context Protocol is a newish AI standard that can make a content platform addressable through a chat interface. </description>
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      <title>The Blogger&apos;s Blueprint</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>If you&apos;re reading this post and the list is unchanged from the day it was published, feel free to assume I&apos;ve been distracted by something shiny.</description>
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      <title>Rebuilding this site with Claude as my copilot</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Templates are starting points. If you&apos;re going to run a blog on someone else&apos;s code, you have to plan for the day you&apos;ll need to take it over. </description>
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      <title>Adventures in post-war Europe: The Third Man &amp; Roman Holiday</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Marvel as two directors take the same raw material, a city and its people pulling themselves back together, and hand the audience two completely different truths.</description>
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      <description>RetroPie used to ship a ready-to-flash image, but the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn&apos;t have one at the moment. Let&apos;s take the manual route.</description>
      <author>contact@bulentyusuf.com (Trippy Robot)</author>
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      <title>Double bill of dread: Wages of Fear &amp; Diabolique</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Two thrillers directed by Clouzot, two opposite theories of dread: in one the threat is a bad road, in the other it&apos;s the person across the breakfast table.</description>
      <author>contact@bulentyusuf.com (Genial Yeti)</author>
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      <title>Building blocks for building blogs</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Documenting the technologies and tools behind this blog. What began life as a fork-it-and-go template has grown into something more substantial.</description>
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